Resonant aerial



Filed Sept. 24, 1947 INVENTOR! EDWARD CECIIL CORK BY M66175??? ATTORNEY Patented Aug. 11,. 1953 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE RESONANT AERIAL Edward Ceoil Cork, Ealing, London, England, as-

signor to Electric 8; Musical Industries Limited, Hayes, England, a. company of Great Britain Application Se tembe 2 1947, er a No, 7 5 784:

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The present invention relates to resonant transmitting or receiving aerials and has for its object to provide an aerial capable of resonating in more than one band of frequencies,

According to the invention, there provided an aerial comprising a conductor loaded by a l ra ty of e cti emen s r an d in ser es along the length of said conductor so that it can e at in a e o a manner i o e than o e band of frequencies, said elements being disosed a on the l n th o s i o du r t iner a s i h a th hi h o sa d f e uen y and a e s o compa d ith h a e engt in said highest frequency band and said elements avin m n u es o p or i n d' t e ame en th vo said o uc o a esonat i e a vibrator having a length equal to a number of qua te wav le h s id numbe nc ud n n o r po to ea h of said p ura it 'ei d ent bands.

If desired, said reactive elements may be so chosen that they assume substantially zero impedance at one of said frequencies, that is to say, may be series resonant at that frequency so that the aerial resonates effectively as an. unloaded conductor.

Reference may be made at this point to'page 854 of the Radio Engineers Handbook by Fred'- erick. Emmons Terman,. published by MoGraw Hill Book Company Inc. of" New York-and London, where a. multiefreqnencyrtuned' antenna systemis disclosed in which adipole has a length a equal to a half wavelength at the iul'e'llesi'; fre-v quency to be transmitted, and parallel resonant ircuits ar dded t h ends o th section g1 such circuits being resonant at the fregueney'for which the length a is a half wavelength. Op-

eration at the next lower frequency is obtainedby adding lengths of conductor band" 17 sothat the section a which is then formed has an equivalent electrical length,r.taking into cgnsigerat'ion the reactance introduced by the parallel resonant circuits, corresponding to half wavelength resonance for the next lower frequency. The added ng b a d ba in perat e-r er theirequency for which the section a alf- Wave resonance since they are isolated by igh an e e p s nte by the he. resonant circuits. Additional resonant quene es n'ib i t o c d a e m The present invention distinguishes from this prior proposal in that at the highest frequency the reactive elements are disposed apart at distances short compared with the wavelength at said frequency, whereas in the prior proposal the section a s not loaded with reactive lem nts. and, moreover, the same length of the aerial is" e u t th t t re i a o s e b r owin e the directive characteristic or diagram offthe' aerial and the gain of the aerial exceeds that of a dipole.

In order that the said invention may be clearily understood and readily carried into eifect it will now be more fully described with reference to the figure of the accompanying drawing.

Referring to this figure, numeral It) indicates said conductor which is interrupted at intervals along its "length byat least three reactive loading elements I l, and is adapted to operate in resonant manner at two diiierent frequency bands.

For convenience only a portion of the conductor l-il-is shown in the figure. The'reactive loading element's ll each comprises an inductan 120- and a capa i y shun ed across t indu t"- n ai le d ng lemen s d sposed along the'conductor IO' at intervals shortcoin pared w h e avel ngth i the b ne of high frequency at which said aerial is to operate.

Said inductances I 2 and capacities I3 and the" total length ofsaid conductor l-0- are so chosen that at the lower of said frequency bands said conductor is effectively inductivelyloaded" and resonantinsaid band, while-at the higher of said frequency bands said conductor is effectively capacitatiyely loaded andresonant in said band. For this purpose, each of said elements H- istuned to substantially the same frequency. sincethe aeriali inaaccordance with the invention is a resonantaerial; the-loading'elemenis must: simulate :aeontinu'ons loading andasstated above they are disposed at intervals short cor-11;?v pared with the wavelength which for continuousloading must be less than a .quarter f ,a warel n th and p e erably one tenth or on -twelfth of a e e enctn- -',I:heiment enthus c ev ces-an ae ia -capab e of resonating in two different frequency bands. The invention can also be applied for providing an aerial capable of resonating in more than two frequency bands. This may be achieved by appropriate design of the loading elements.

. 2- i e se s connec ion w th t e een uetor For example, the capacities [3 may be shunted across only a part of the inductances 12, as shown, so that each capacity 13 together with the shunted portion of the associated inductance resonates with the inductance effectively in series with it so that each element possesses substantially zero impedance between its terminals whereby the aerial conductor is effectively unbroken by the loading elements. In this case, the aerial resonates not only at the frequencies at which the elements ll provide effective inductive and capacitative loading as aforesaid but also at the frequency dictated by its natural length.

It will be appreciated that the elements H are capable of anti-resonance at a particular frequency in which case the portions of conductor l between the elements become isolated from one another and by suitably choosing .the length of said portions of conductor the latter may be arranged to resonate at the frequency of anti-resonance of the elements II as individual dipoles.

The invention is particularly applicable to dipoles but can, if desired, be applied to unipoles or quarter-wave aerials.

What I claim is:

1. An aerial comprising a conductor loaded by at least three reactive elements arranged in series along the length of said conductor so that it can operate in a resonant manner in more than one band of frequencies, each series reactive element comprising an inductance shunted by a capacity, said elements being disposed along the length of said conductor at intervals which at the highest of said frequency bands are short compared with the wavelength in said band and said elements each being tuned to substantially the same frequency and having magnitudes which are such that the same length of said conductor can resonate like a vibrator having a length equal to a number of quarter wavelengths,

said number including one, corresponding to each of said plurality of different bands.

2. An aerial according to claim 1, wherein said reactive elements each includes a further inductance in series with its capacity, said elements having magnitudes proportioned to present substantially zero impedance at one of said frequency bands so that the aerial resonates effectively as an unloaded conductor.

3. An aerial comprising a conductor loaded by at least three reactive elements arranged in series along the length of said conductor to operate in a resonant manner in more than one band of frequencies, said elements being disposed along the length of said conductor at short intervals compared with the wavelength in the highest of said frequency bands and said elements each being tuned to substantially the same frequency and having magnitudes proportioned to provide efiective capacitive loading in one of said bands and efiective inductive loading in another of said bands, whereby the same length of said conductor resonates like a vibrator having a length equal to a number of quarter wavelengths, said number including one, corresponding to each of said plurality of different bands, said reactive elements each comprising an inductance shunted by a capacity and having 4 a further inductance in series with its capacity, and the magnitudes of said elements being proportioned to present substantially zero impedance at one of said frequency bands, whereby the aerial resonates effectively as an unloaded conductor.

4. An aerial comprising a conductor loaded by at least three reactive elements arranged in series along the length of said conductor to operatein a resonant manner in two frequency bands, said elements each including an inductance shunted by a capacity and being disposed along the length of said conductor at short intervals compared with the wavelength in the highest of said frequency bands, all of said elements being tuned to present individually in both of said bands a reactive impedance, said reactive impedance being effectively capacitive in one of said bands and efiectively inductive in the other of said bands, whereby the same length of said conductor can resonate like a vibrator having a length equal to a number of quarter wavelengths, said number including one, corresponding to each of said two frequency bands.

5. An aerial comprising a conductor loaded by at least three reactive elements arranged in series along the length of said conductor to operate in a resonant manner in two frequency bands, said elements each including an inductance shunted by a capacity, and said elements being disposed at intervals along the length of said conductor which are less than a quarter of a wavelength in the highest of said frequency bands, and said elements being tuned to present in one of said bands effective capacitive loading and in the other of said bands effective inductive loading, whereby the same length of said conductor can resonate like a vibrator having a length equal to a number of quarter wavelengths, said number including one, corresponding to each of said two frequency bands.

6. An aerial comprising a conductor loaded by at least three reactive elements arranged in series along the length of said conductor to operate in a resonant manner in two frequency bands, said elements each including an inductance shunted by a capacity, said elements being disposed at intervals along the length of said conductor which are less than a quarter of a wavelength in the highest of said frequency bands, and said elements being tuned to substantially the same frequency to present in one of said bands effective capacitive loading and in the other of said bands elfective inductive loading, whereby the same length of said conductor can resonate like a vibrator having a length equal to a number of quarter wavelengths, said number including one, corresponding to each of said two frequency bands.

EDWARD CECIL CORK.

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